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Carrie Fisher's return to the "Star Wars" saga is coming at a price: at least 35 pounds of flesh. Hollywood wanting its ladies lithe is hardly news, but isn't it usually the guys who talk about roles demanding dramatic gains or losses in the heft department? Fisher, however, doesn't often choose the "usual" route. "They didn't hire me, they hired me minus 35 pounds," she said on a red carpet Wednesday night in North Hollywood. "She's worked her body out for one year to not have a body," mom Debbie Reynolds chimed in. The actress and writer was there to support her mom at a preview of the final chapter of the...

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